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- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life.
- J. E. Buchrose
- Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms... This is a process that requires trust and builds trust.
- Mary Field Belenky, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind, p. 187
- The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too. - John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
- When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
- Marquis de Vauvenargues
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
- Robert J. Furey
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